European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The e stars an d stripes saturday. July 25,1967page 28 pm the and scripts Saiu Roay Jui a drug use Down Dod official says a.   inline ii the the 8,000 requests from civilian Law in Washington up a lop Pentagon official Lold Congress thursday thai drug use in the armed forces has dropped sharply in recent years and Mil itary Aid to civilian agencies trying to Slop drat trafficking has risen. Marine it. Gen. Stephcn Olmstead Dirc Clor of the Pentagon s task Force on  old the House armed service investigations subcommittee about Pentagon Progress in both areas. Seven years ago he said More than 27 percent of i Host in the armed forces admitted to some form of drug use largely marijuana. This year he said less than 3 percent Are testing positive for Knif use in random tests and the percentage of those who admit to having used a drug in the previous 3d Days is about 8.5 percent there s no doubt that the fear of being caught in random testing principal thing keeping soldiers sailors airmen and marines from illegal drug  said. Olms lend added thai the 211.000 Mili tary recruiters in their talks Al school across the country Are taking the just say no message to potential recruits. Last year. Olms cad said the armed forces were Able to respond to �5 percent of the 8,00 requests fro Civilia la enforcement agencies for assistance in rack ing or apprehending drug traffickers. He said that in fiscal 1986. Military air Craft put in almost 16.000 hours flying surveillance missions that assisted civilian agencies. Olmstead also said the defense department has loaned nearly si40 Mil lion in military equipment including Heli copters to Taw enforcement agencies. Armacost plans talks with foreign leaders Washington a Michael h. Anna Cost the state department s third highest offi Cial will hold talks with leaders in Turkey Greece India and Pakistan for 11 Days begin Ning this weekend the department said. Armacost an undersecretary for political affairs will visit Turkey and Greece traditional rivals in the Eastern Mediterranean from july 25 to 30 from july 31 1o aug. 4. He will be i Pakistan and India which have been enemies for four decades in South Asia. The United Stales has been trying to smooth relations Between Greece and Turkey. There arc important . Military installations in bom countries and the United Stales is preparing Lor talks with the greeks to renew a base agreement thai expires in 1989. . Will retain warheads on West German missiles Washington up top administration officials said thursday they will hang Lough on the last major stumbling Block to a nuclear arms agreement and reject soviet demands for elimination of . Warheads on West German  officials welcomed soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s acceptance of the worldwide Banon both medium and Short Range nuclear mis Siles a ban Long advocated by the United states. We re obviously  said chief Ameri can negotiator Man Kampelman. I would say to the soviets Welcome aboard " said Kenneth Jelman director Olathe arms control and disarmament Agency who indicated that an agreement is now so per cell Complete. Of Cadet hospitalized after Channel swim try Dover England a a . Air Force Cadet was hospitalized thursday Afler he nearly drowned while trying to swim the English Chan Nel a Hospital official said. By Whinnery 21. Of san Antonio Texas was picked up out of he water after near drowning said Nicola Foad. A Deputy unit administrator Al Buckland Hospital in Dover. He d inhaled a lot of sea water Whinnery was listed in stable condition and was expected to leave the Hospital in several Days Foad , a Cadet at the air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. Colo had set off from Dover s Shakespeare Beach on wednesday morning in an attempt to swim the 21 Miles to the Northern coast of francs. Ariane rocket launch scheduled for sept. 11 Paris up operators of Europe s ariane rocket have Large cd Cpl. Ii for the i9ih launching of the rocket that has been grounded for 15 months by mechanical problems. Arian space is the International consortium that builds Sells and launches the unmanned my Ellie delivery rocket. On the list ariane launching May Al 1986, the third stage failed to ignite properly sending the rocket and is satellite cargo flying out of control and forcing its detonation by Mission control in Kourou French Guiana. Shultz from Page 1 arms shipments 10 Iran on nov. 17, 18 or 19. 1986. On one of those Days a Meuse aide Charles j. Cooper assistant attorney general in charge of the office of Legal counsel obtained chronologies prepared by the National Security Council mention ing that fact. Shuttz characterized the Clandestine talc mils to free americans held hostage in Lebanon by making deals with Iran As  he said the people who were doing this they got taken to the cleaners. He said that part of the policy of trying to free the hostages has to be making it Plain that you will not pay ran of bribes or whatever for them because the minute you do that you expose the vast numbers of americans travelling around to greater risk Shultz who was to testify again Friday made Clear his support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. But i Don t think that the desirable end justified the Means of lying deceiving of doing things thai arc outside our constitutional process he said. He defended Elliott Abrams. The assistant Secretary of state who admitted misleading Congress about some aspects of the affair. He made a mistake he knows it and he is full of remorse about it Shultz said. I think he is a very Able energetic Fine person with a real instinct for Public serv ice and a link the country needs people 1 Ike that. He told the congressional Iran Contra committees that National Security adviser John poin Dexler Anocia director William Casey had a conflict of interest with the president in trying to persuade him to hide the truth from inc country and to bail them out. Both Poindexter who resigned As the affair was officially disclosed on nov. 25, and Casey who has since died had approved of the diversion of arms sae Money to the nicaraguan rebels Al a time when official government Aid to the contras was banned. As for himself Shutlz said other Reagan administration officials kept him in the dark about key events in the Iran Contra affair and that he was sick to my stomach when he Learned some of the details Shutlz the highest administration official heard by the committees in i hair 11 weeks of heating testified without immunity or a lawyer at his  was in a Battle to get what i saw As the facts to the president and Sec that he understood them said Shultz emotionally. This was a very traumatic period for me because everybody was saying i m disloyal to the president. I could see people were calling for me to resign if can t be Loyal to the president. "1 frankly fell that i was the one who was Loyal to the president because i was the one who Wasj Ramg 10 gel him the facts so he could make a decision a Shultz said Casey bypassed other High level officials and continued to struggle for partial control of the administration s policy toward Iran after Reagan empowered the stale department to Lake  Secretary said in answer to a question by com Mittee counsel Mark Belnick. That on the eve of presi Dent Reagan s nov. 19 press conference last year he told Reagan we be been deceived and lied to an you have to watch out about saying no Arm for hos tages " in a televised address on nov. 13, Reagan had asserted that we did not Irac weapons or anything else for  also said ,. He first Learned that the United states had sold weapons directly to Iran when he read about it in new reports published Many months Afler the transaction pm had in l know that Reagan had formally approved the Sale of arms to Iran until nearly a year later he did t know until afterwards that former National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane went secretly to Tehran in May 1986, and it was even later that he Learned my Farfan had taken weapons with him. Gulf from Page 1 general Javier Perez do Cullar. On thursday vol Ayala said in Bonn if iranian ships Are not subjected to attack if no ships Are at tacked by the iraqis no ships will be attacked in the persian  he called the . Warships a threat to Iran but sidestepped questions about Iran s response. He did l mention Hii message to the . Official. Lloyd s intelligence unit in London says 333 vessels have been hit in attacks by both sides during the 7 year old War Between Branand Iraq. At a news conference Afler talks with foreign min Isler Hans Dietrich Genscher. Vol Ayala repeated Iran rejection of any . Cease fire Resolution that does not Call Iraq the aggressor. The War began Afler several Border skirmishes with an iraqi invasion of iranian territory in september 1980,the . Security Council unanimously passed a cease fire Resolution monday one of several it has approved since the War began. Iraqi foreign minister Tana Aziz said late thurs Day that he had told Perez de Cuellar that his country won t Lay Down its arms unless Iran agrees to a cease fire and he said that is unlikely. You cannot implement a Resolution by one Side Only. This Resolution is aimed at 10 sides Aziz Low reporters at the United nations after meeting for Aboul an hour with Perez de Cuellar. Shipping and Salvage experts speaking on inc Condi Tion of Anonym ily said they did not discount the possibility of Ranian attacks on the loaded tankers during their return trip through inc Gulf next  accuses Kuwait of receiving arms and passing them to Iraq the emirate s Eastern neighbor at ise Northern end of the Gulf. Iran began last september 10 concentrate its attacks on ships owned by or serving Kuwait. Bernsen from Page 1 area were angry that the United slates has sold weapons Loran. Belsen asked if inc arms sales had complicated his Job answered on a Day la Day basis no 1 Don t think it s complicated my  asked to explain How the sales harmed .-Arab reunions he said obviously it makes folks a Little skittish if we claim to support the Gulf arabs and Weare seen to help their declared enemy. Their feelings obviously Aren l very positive Aboul that sort or Ihms. But he added the United slates has Long been Friendly with Gulf Arab nations and i think the recent activity in the Gulf indicates just that. When icy see that we Are indeed supporting their interests they Are More than willing to come Forward and help us and provide support for us he said. Officially the United Stales is Neutral in the Iran Iraq War despite claims by critics of the re flagging policy that the move is a Laie step toward taking Side. Kuwait has provided Aid to Iraq. Belsen disagreed with inc argument that the re Flag Ging of kuwaiti tankers Means the United Matei a backing Iraq. ,. I Don t think it s a till he replied we certainly Here in the Gulf have not tilted toward our Gulf Arab friends. We have always been supportive of our Gull Arab  he made Clear where he believes . Or spa Thies lie without any relationship to Iran i think i could be stated without any equivocation that our sympathies have  the Gulf arabs be said those Are the folks i m concerned about